OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology company, in a deal valued at over $300 million, according to a September 2026 report from The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI did not…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post in September 2026 outlining three strategies to slow the pace of AI development, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk both publicly…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, according to a Bloomberg report published Friday — double the company’s revenue run rate recorded in…
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, climbed to the No. 2 position on the US App Store as of September 10, 2026, days after its Tuesday launch — but early download figures show it trailing behind previous…
Google rolled out in September 2026 a new Android feature to switch password managers while migrating passwords and passkeys without CSV exports. On Android 8+, it detects compatible apps for review/approval; Bitwarden, 1Password, and Dashlane are supported, and passkeys don’t need reconfiguration.
Instagram rolled out Sept 10, 2026, allowing users to add tagged posts to their main profile grid from a DM tag alert, the post, or the Tagged tab. The original isn’t duplicated or deleted and can be removed anytime without affecting Tagged, letting users highlight collaborations and brand campaigns.
Italian software acquirer Bending Spoons announced in September 2026 that it will purchase workplace collaboration platform Miro for $1.36 billion in cash — representing an equity value of $1.79…
In September 2026, Snapchat rolls out “Snapchat Plans” for in-app event organizing: invite up to 200 friends via chat, collect Going/Maybe/Can’t Go RSVPs, and send reminders 1 hour before. Hosts can update time, location, and attendees, and “My Plans” on profiles shows shared events—aimed at fixing details buried in group chats and competing with Partiful.
ID verification company IDScan has confirmed that hackers stole driver’s license records and other government-issued identity documents from its cloud systems, in what appears to be one of the…
Austin-based navigation startup Tern has secured an $11.26 million contract from the U.S. Army to deploy its GPS-alternative technology in military vehicles, the company announced in September…
Paul Christiano, an AI alignment researcher who believes AI development poses a meaningful risk of catastrophic and irreversible loss of human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation’s board of…
Automattic’s board placed founder/CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, confirmed Sept. 9, 2026, after a Slack message says CFO Mark Davies and board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker voted him onto leave. Davies becomes interim CEO.
